Have you ever felt like its pointless to live anymore?

[Bamba]

Have you?

To be honest, I have a few times. It usually happened to me when I was very sad or depressed because of something. For example.....some people used to laugh at me everyday and say Im terrible at everything. I didnt know not to take what people say seriously back then, so I almost ended my life.....But since then I realized not to react to things this way anymore.

These days though, I never even think about it. But Im curious what about you all.....have you ever thought to yourselves, "my life is so terrible, I dont see a point in continuing to live anymore"?

Discuss please.

 

[Spinozaad]

Sure.

But even a crappy life is ultimately better than no life at all. They don't have chocolate softcream with caramel topping in the nothingness.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Well, I feel on numerous occasions that life is pointless, but that doesn't mean I want it to end.

And usually this feeling of pointlessness stems from what society excepts my life to be, rather than what my life actually is. And in that respect my life is pretty okay.

 

[Angie7F]

sure. I couldnt careless if I were to die.

I am not super unhappy. Actually I am quite happy. But still, I think life is pointless.
Therefore my feeling of happiness is quite pointless too.

 

[OniaPL]

For example.....some people used to laugh at me everyday and say Im terrible at everything. I didnt know not to take what people say seriously back then, so I almost ended my life.....But since then I realized not to react to things this way anymore.

Come on! When life gives you lemons, don?t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don?t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life?s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give you lemons! Do you know who I am? I?m the man who?s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I?m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!

That's what you do. Gosh darn it.

Punch life in the face! If someone's terrible to you, be even more terrible to them! Fuck Jesus, he didn't know what the hel he was talking about when it comes to turning the cheek.

OT:
These days though, I never even think about it. But Im curious what about you all.....have you ever thought to yourselves, "my life is so terrible, I dont see a point in continuing to live anymore"?

Lolnope. If I feel like my life is going downhill, I just make sure that everyone else will slide down a hill even steeper than mine.

Captcha: True life

 

[lRookiel]

Hmmm I'm only borderline suicidal whenever I wake up every day, for about 15 minutes. Then it stops and I continue with my day wishing only to sleep some more. I really do wish I could sleep my life away sometimes >.>

 

[Powereaver]

Sure i have been a few times in my life quite suicidal.. even recently.. but i guess im just too afraid of pain and death in the end.. so i just always ended up self harming instead.. which hurts a lot more then you just end up snapping out of it after a while!

 

[Strazdas]

What you describe is a bullied suicide, not feeling life is pointless. been there, done that.
now onto a real topic.

Yes, i have felt the life is pointless, multiple times.
But then i remember, that the point of life is to be happy, and im in a better position than most for it, so i make my own happyness and live on.

 

[ShinyCharizard]

I realise my life is pointless in the grand scheme of the universe, but that doesn't matter. I'm just gonna keep on enjoying doing what I do. So I don't feel like it is pointless to keep on living. And I would never consider suicide because I just couldn't do that to the people who care about me, and there are many things that I enjoy about life.

 

[smithy_2045]

There have been times when I've had suicidal thoughts, but I was either too afraid of pain, scared of failure, or just too unmotivated to try anything.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Yeah I did had a low point back in High School mainly when I got lonely when realising that the people I'm with were not really my friends. Granted that was all turn around once I started going to Uni and meet new friends who appriate me for who I am.

 

[Sack of Cheese]

Not really, I am almost always in a good mood. Although 2-3 days every 2-3 months I have a depressed period in exchange.

Life is short, so when you're done you're done. We're on this Earth to have some fun.

 

[Smeatza]

Of course it's pointless, it's just a ride.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Well...I don't remember thinking my life was ever not pointless, really.

Likewise all human endeavour, though. For there to be a point, there must be something to determine that point. Now, I could do that myself, but that'd be fairly arbitrary.

In the absence of instructions from some guiding intelligence, I don't see anything as having a point.

 

[StormShaun]

it depends really.
Everyone has 'those' moments where you just want to die.

For me I rarely have those kind of feelings/moments.
I just think that I have to live life to the fullest whilst caring for my family, friends, loved ones and everyone else in the world.
I mean if you die/killed yourself you would make many, MANY more people upset like your family and etc.
It'f pretty selfish if you just off yourself and don't care about anything or anyone.

So right now I'm living.
If death will try to reach me I will fight with everything I got.
Maybe hit him with his own scythe... like in Dante's Inferno. XD

Basically. Yeah, everyone has those kinds of thoughts... but it is better to think positively about life!

 

[Flamezdudes]

Almost every day recently. Reading existentialism hasn't helped my depression recently... but I haven't got to the point where I want to kill myself or anything (though the thought of it does occur), I just feel sick of everything and just wonder why I keep doing everything when it's all so completely pointless and worthless.

 

[Dyono]

....Unfortunatly i have...even lately, As desperate as it seems i really have been doupting my good will in this world, Because of a countless amount of what some people think as "small propblems" and because the whole society here is just depressing. I have never been agressive in my life, And i mean NEVER, But i have been tempted lately to just flip out at random things......Even things i love...I know it will all get better but untill that time...*sign*...But i'm sort of in the same position as Scarim Coral was in High School, Meinly because i'm in High School...

 

[4RM3D]

Hmmm, well... funny enough I was just thinking about this. Not that I was feeling this way, but just as a thought experiment. So to say, if that made any sense at all. Anyhow, because of that I felt I should contribute to this thread. Not sure if this will help, but I instantly thought of Gandhi:

Spoiler: alternative, less cool, image

Take care and don't lose hope!

 

[unindexedsearchengine]

There is a difference between thinking living is pointless and being suicidal. Being inherently lazy, I savor every moment of pointlessness life presents me with. So yes, I have, on occasion, felt that is it pointless to live anymore, and i loved every lazy non-productive second of it.